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Weapons 11 Blamed for the Death of Her Young Son Table of Contents The Story So Far... In an age and a region renowned for cruelty and violence, Caleb was legendary Born The Story So Far 2 in western Texas in 1847, he had sealed a reputation as a merciless gunfighter by the Installation 4 age of 17. But it was seven years later when he met Ophelia Price that his hunger for bloodshed took on a menacing new timbre. The Point of the Game 6 She was already well beyond the bounds of sanity when lie found her cowering in Starting a New Game 6 the charred ruins of the burned out homestead where her husband and child had per- ished only days before, it was neither her tattered beauty nor her plight that compelled Configuring the Options 7 Caleb to take her in, however-it was the words he picked out of her virtually incoherent Controlling the Action 8 mumblings. Combat 10 He learned that her husband had attempted to rescind his membership of the dread- ed Cult of Tchernobog and in return cultists had set fire to the house in the night. Episode/Level Structure 11 Ophelia was filled with rage-not at the cult but at her husband, whose cowardice she Weapons 11 blamed for the death of her young son. Ophelia was Caleb's doorway to the Cult and its dark purpose. He could not have Items 14 known that in time he would come to love her, nor that their service to the Cult would Keys and Puzzles 17 find the two of them beloved among the Chosen, elite servants of the dreaming god Tchernobog, the One That Binds, Devourer of Souls. Enemies 17 in the Hall of the Epiphany, a temple that spans the chasm between the worlds, the BloodBath 21 four remaining Chosen stand at the forefront of a procession of worshippers. Troubleshooting 23 Tchernobog's presence is felt more than seen-the great, frigid weight of a hunger that spans millennia. He speaks in a cacophony of voices stolen from the dead, summoning Technical Support 24 the Chosen to the center of the sacrificial ring. They stand before the Dark God, united Credits.... 26 by a sudden, inexplicable sense of doom. A wordless cry rises up from the seething shadows, one voice swallowed up by many until the hall resounds with them. The members of the procession behind the Installation Chosen melt away in a gust of ethereal wind, extinguished like so many candle flames. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS There aren't even ashes to indicate they ever existed. Operating System: DOS 6.2 or better. The Chosen look to one another in confusion and dread. They can already feel the CPU: Pentium 75mhz or better ties that bind them to Tchemobog fraying. Why? How have we failed you? Memory: 16MB But there is no answer other than the shattering scream that threatens to tear the uni- Available Hard Disk Space: SOMB verse to shreds. Darkness swells around them, swallows them. Their cold, abandoned CD-ROM: 4x or better souls fall through the abyss. Audio System: Sound Blaster or 100% Compatible And they burn. Video System: VGA 256 color Caleb awakens in cold and damp in a body he no longer knows, it has long lain as a Input Devices: Keyboard, Mouse, Gamepad, or Joystick. corpse that refused to rot. protected from putrefaction by some unearthly link to its mas- ter. The pain of protesting muscle and flesh invigorates and awakens him. He welcomes DOS INSTALLATION it. It distills his hate into the maelstrom raging in the center of his mind. 1. Place the CD in your CD-ROM drive (typically drive D:|. An agonizing cry breaks out of him. shattering the stone lid of the tomb in which he 2. Switch to your CD-ROM drive by typing D: (or the appropriate drive letter designa- lies, knocking loose sediment, cobwebs, and the small, unnoticed creatures that have tion) and press (ENTER) shared his grave with him. A single word rings out through the darkness, echoing 3. Type INSTALL and press (ENTER) to start the installation program Tchemobog's lingering howl: "Why?" 4. Follow the on-screen prompts Once the game is installed, type SETUP from within your Blood directory' to configure the game to your system. If you are unsure of the settings you should choose, consult your computer or sound card manual for assistance. If you know you have a sound card and speakers but are unsure of the brand, select SoundBlaster for both Music and Sound Card. TO Run Blood after the game is installed, select "Save and Launch Blood" from the ietup menu, or from the DOS prompt, type CD\BLOOD (it you installed to a director)' ailed "Blood") and then type Blood to start. After a short introduction, you will be at the uain Blood menu. Select "New Game" to start playing. THE POINT OF THE GAME WINDOWS® INSTALLATION If you are using Windows 95, jusi insert the CD in your CD-ROM drive. It the install The road back to the Hall of the Epiphany is fraught with peril. You will face program does not start automatically, or if you have a previous version of Windows, fol- numerous foes, puzzles, and other obstacles in your journey, so you will have to low these instructions, be resourceful. Survival is your first priority, but survival alone isn't enough. You must first seek the others of the Chosen, for only with their combined strength can you hope 1. Place the CD in your CD-ROM drive (typically drive D:). to reach Tchernobog. 2. Click on the My Computer icon on your desktop 3. Click on the icon for your CD-ROM drive STARTING A NEW GAME 4. Double-click the INSTALL icon to start the installation program When you select NEW GAME from the main menu, you will be given a choice 5. Follow the on-screen prompts between four episodes-(one), (two), (three), and (four). (One) will bring you to the aerie Once the game is installed, double click the SETUP icon in your Blood folder to config- of Cheogh, the stone gargoyle, where you will seek your beloved Ophelia. o\vo) marks ure the game, if you are unsure of the settings you should choose, either consult your your quest for Gabriel, who is held in the lair of shial, the Mother of Spiders. (Three) will computer or sound card manual or right click your My Computer icon and select the lead you before Cerberus, who guards your comrade Ishmael. in (Pour), you will face Tchernobog himself in the Hall of the Epiphany, where perhaps you will learn the reason Device Manager tab, which should list the necessary information. If you know you have for your banishment. a sound card and speakers but are unsure of the brand, select SoundBlaster for both Music and Sound Card. HELPFUL HINT: Playing the episodes in order will preserve the flow of the game story and ensure a To Run Blood after the game is installed, select "Save and Launch Blood" from the more gradual increase in difficulty. Setup menu, or simply double-click on the "Blood" icon inside your "Blood" folder. Aftei a short introduction, you will be at the main Blood menu. Select "New Game" to start You must also select a skill level. Blood's skill levels affect more than the number playing. of monsters or powerups you will find along the way-the harder the level, the more damage monsters can take and disli out. if you experience problems running Blood in WindowsQS, you will have to restart youi computer in MS-DOS® mode. Click on the Start button and select Shut Down. Select HELPFUL HINT: Restart the computer in MS-DOS mode? and click OK. When your computer restarts, fol- StiH Kicking is recommended only for beginning players who are easily frustrated low the DOS installation instructions above. or frightened-and even they may be subject to our ridicule. Likewise. Exrra Crispy was designed with cooperative play in mind and may therefore seem a bit too challenging IMPORTANT! to a single player. Not that we expect that to stop you. Windows 3.1 users must exit to DOS before installing Blood. Click File in the top left hand comer of your Program Manager window, select Exit Windows..., and then click OK. Note that each time you play you'll have to exit Windows and then switch to the Blood directory (by typing CD\BLOOD and then pressing [ENTER]). AUTO AIM Configuring the Options Toggles automatic aiming for weapons. We recommend that you leave this option MOUSE SENSITIVITY enabled, as it helps you to hit airborne or crawling enemies. Controls the responsiveness of the game to mouse movement. The higher the sensi- tivity, the faster you'll spin. CROSSHAIR Toggles a crosshair for easier aiming. INVERT MOUSE AIM: Controls the changes in view that result from mouse movement SHOW WEAPONS Allows you to see which weapon your opponent is using in BloodBath. Weapons will KEY TURN SPEED appear above enemies' heads. Like mouse sensitivity, key turn speed affects responsiveness to movement controls. This option gives keyboarders a fighting chance against mouse players. SLOPE TILTING Controls whether or not player's view tilts in the direction of slopes. Disable this option CONFIGURE KEYS... to keep your view directed at the horizon. Allows changing the keys assigned to different game functions. The default key assignments are given below VIEW BOBBING Toggles the vertical "bobbing" of player weapons. Disable view bobbing if you experi- DETAIL ence nausea while playing. Changes the detail level, if you are experiencing choppy image quality, try reducing the detail level a notch or two.
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